5 Joined with the living, let the dead,

Rising, the face of earth o'erspread ;
And, while his praise unites their tongues,
Let angels echo back the songs.

6 The drop that from the bucket falls,
The dust that hangs upon the scales,
Is more to sky, and earth, and sea,
Than all this pomp, O God, to thee.

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The Power and Majesty of God. Ps. 89.

1 WITH reverence let the saints appear,
And bow before the Lord,

His high commands with reverence hear,
And tremble at his word.

2 How terrible thy glories be!

How bright thine armies shine! Where is the power that vies with thee, Or truth, compared to thine?

3 The northern pole and southern rest
On thy supporting hand;

Darkness and day, from east to west,
Move round at thy command.

4 Thy words the raging wind control,
And rule the boisterous deep;
Thou mak'st the sleeping billows roll,
The rolling billows sleep.

5 Justice and judgment are thy throne,
Yet wondrous is thy grace,

While truth and mercy, joined in one,
Invite us near thy face.

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OF PSALMS.

The Majesty of God. Ps. 29.

10 YE, the sons of mighty ones,

Give to the Lord on high,

All glory to Jehovah give,

And boundless potency.

2 The voice is full of power, which sounds
Forth from the Lord on high;
Jehovah's mighty voice is full
Of glorious majesty.

3 See how Jehovah's voice at once
The shivering cedars tears!
See how the Lord the cedars breaks
Which Lebanon high rears!

4 Jehovah's voice strikes flames of fire,
And scatters them around;
Jehovah's voice the desert makes

To tremble with the sound.

5 With glares of lightning through the dark He makes the forests bare;

But his full glory he within

His temple doth declare.

6 The Lord sits on the flood as King;
The Lord's reign ne'er shall cease;
The Lord will give his people strength;
The Lord will bless with peace.

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God's Majesty and Sovereignty.

1 THE Lord Jehovah reigns;
His throne is built on high;
The garments he assumes
Are light and majesty:
His glories shine

With beams so bright,
No mortal eye

Can bear the sight.

2 The thunders of his hand

Keep the wide world in awe ;
His wrath and justice stand
To guard his holy law :
And where his love
Resolves to bless,
His truth confirms

And seals the grace.

3 And can this mighty King
Of glory condescend?
And will he write his name
"My Father and my Friend"?
I love his name,

I love his word;

Join, all my powers,
And praise the Lord.

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TATE & BRADY.

The Majesty and Condescension of God. Ps. 8.

1 O THOU to whom all creatures bow, Within this earthly frame,

Through all the world how great art thou! How glorious is thy name!

2 When heaven, thy beauteous work on high, Employs my wondering sight;

The moon, that nightly rules the sky,
With stars of feebler light;-

3 What's man, say I, that, Lord, thou lov'st To keep him in thy mind?

Or what his offspring, that thou prov'st
To them so wondrous kind?

4 Him next in power thou didst create
To thy celestial train,
Ordained, with dignity and state,
O'er all thy works to reign.

5 They jointly own his powerful sway-
The beasts that prey or graze ;
The bird that wings its airy way;
The fish that cuts the seas.

60 thou, to whom all creatures bow
Within this earthly frame,

Through all the world how great art thou! How glorious is thy name!

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The Majesty of God. Ps. 18.

STERNHOLD.

1 THE Lord descended from above,
And bowed the heavens high;
And underneath his feet he cast
The darkness of the sky.

2 On cherub and on cherubim
Full royally he rode;

And on the wings of all the winds
Came flying all abroad.

3 And like a den most dark he made
His hid and secret place;

With waters black and airy clouds
Environed he was.

4 He sat serene upon the floods,
Their fury to restrain;

And he as sovereign Lord and King
Forevermore shall reign

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The Greatness of God. Ps. 145.

1 GREAT is the Lord, his power unknown,

And let his praise be great;

I'll sing the honors of thy throne,

Thy works of grace repeat.

2 Thy grace shall dwell upon my tongue,
And, while my lips rejoice,

The men that hear my sacred song
Shall join their cheerful voice.